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035 _a(DE-B1597)600593
035 _a(OCoLC)1263022043
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082 0 4 _a814/.6
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aDe Marco Torgovnick, Marianna
_eautore
245 1 0 _aCrossing Back :
_bBooks, Family, and Memory without Pain /
_cMarianna De Marco Torgovnick.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bFordham University Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2021
300 _a1 online resource (144 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPrologue --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction --
_tPart I. Facing Grief --
_t1. Living Tissue --
_t2. Imagining Disaster --
_t3. Mother’s Day --
_tPart II. Sustaining Things --
_t4. Second Chances --
_t5. College Teaching and Culture Wars or: What Really Happened at Duke --
_t6. Elephants: A Meditation on Mortality --
_tPart III. Memory without Pain --
_t7. Food as Anthropological Lens --
_t8. Real Estate / Unreal Estate --
_tThe Stark but Familiar Allure of Empty Cities: An Epilogue --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aFrom the award-winning author of Crossing Ocean Parkway, a personal memoir about adjusting to loss through books, meditation, and the process of memory itselfMarianna De Marco Torgovnick experienced the rupture of two of her life’s most intimate relations when her mother and brother died in close proximity. Mourning rocked her life, but it also led to the solace and insight offered by classic books and the practice of meditation. Her resulting journey into the past imagines a viable future and raises questions acute for Italian Americans but pertinent to everyone, about the nature of memory and the meanings of home at a time, like ours, marked by cultural disruption and wartime. Crossing Back: Books, Family, and Memory without Pain presents a personal perspective on death, mourning, loss, and renewal.A sequel to her award-winning and much-anthologized Crossing Ocean Parkway, Crossing Back is about close familial ties and personal loss, written after the death of her remaining birth family, who had always been there, and now were not. After their loss, she entered a spiritual and psychological state of “transcendental homelessness”: the feeling of being truly at home nowhere, of being spiritually adrift. In a grand act of symbolic reenactment, she found herself moving apartments repeatedly, not realizing she did so subconsciously to keep busy, to stave off grief. By reading and studying great books, she opened up to mourning, a process she constitutionally resisted as somehow shameful. Over time, she discovered that a third death colored and prolonged her feelings of grief: her first child’s death in infancy, which, in the course of a happier lifetime, had never been adequately acknowledged. Her new losses led her finally to take stock of her son’s death too. Reading and meditating, followed by writing, became daily her healing rituals.A warm and intimate user’s guide to books, family, and memory in the mourning process, the end-point being memory without pain, Crossing Back is a wide-ranging memoir about growing older and learning to ride the waves of change. Lively and conversational, Torgovnick is masterful at tracking the moment-to moment, day-to-day challenges of sudden or protracted grief and the ways in which the mind and the body seem to search for—and sometimes find—solutions.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aAuthors, American
_y21st century
_vBiography.
650 0 _aBooks and reading
_xPsychological aspects.
650 0 _aGrief.
650 0 _aItalian American women
_vBiography.
650 4 _aGender & Sexuality.
650 4 _aHealth & Medicine.
650 4 _aMemoir.
650 7 _aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
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653 _aAcademic scandals / Duke University.
653 _aClassics.
653 _aCovid-19.
653 _aFamily.
653 _aGrief.
653 _aMeditation.
653 _aMemory.
653 _aMourning.
653 _aReading.
653 _aYoga.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780823297801?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823297801
856 4 2 _3Cover
_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823297801/original
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999 _c202922
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